We are pleased to announce the next beta release of X1 Search 8.5 (Build 6001le).

This 8.5 beta maintenance release (Build 6001le) builds upon your dedicated feedback to the first two beta releases, and includes the features and enhancements listed out immediately below. For a comprehensive list of all enhancements part of the 8.5 beta thus far, please see the bottom of this post. Please download soon and we look forward to your feedback.

• Fixed a bug introduced in Beta 1 that prevented launch of X1 on non-English OS • Fixed a bug that caused temp files to build up while scanning MSG files on the filesystem• Fixed a bug that caused a tag interface to display when it should not• Fixed a crash in the X1 index engine when updating index items • Fixed a crash in the X1 index engine when indexing large XLS files

Known issues:• Main menu Options and Info panels do not extend to be full screen

Full X1 Search 8.5 beta release notes:

New Features/Enhancements

• Newly designed application flyout menu and application settings pages• Send by Email post-search action now populates the subject with the names of the files • GPO to ignore PST warnings when they’re not available (i.e. on offline network shares)• GPO to automatically select MS Exchange online archive for indexing• Improved Outlook scanner stability when entering sleep / hibernation• Outlook 2013/2016 support for indexing offline content from folders that are partially cached• Fixed the preview zoom to support high-definition 4k monitors• Fixed all application icons to support high-definition 4k monitors• Added configurable hotkeys for saved searches in the navigation panel• Additional hotkeys for common UI tasks - E.g. Alt+D to focus the main search box• IMAP Plugin: Fixed a problem with opening attachments and added “Download Attachment” Post-Search Action• Allow main window width to become half-screen when the preview is on the bottom, or turned off• Indicate max document size limit for indexing in the Files Options dialog• Added option to disable “fast-as-you-type” search and replace with a traditional search button• Stability fixes when indexing network PSTs. Ability to turn off warning dialog when they’re not available.• Rapid: adjust timeout when searching against Rapid server• Rapid: ensure proper sort order is executed against Rapid server

As a summary, at your request we have added a series of hotkeys listed below:

FWIW: I upgraded to this release and now X1 locks up. It starts ok, but whenever I try to do a search or anything at all, it locks up. Task manager does not show that it's "not responding," but X1 is frozen.

I'm uninstalling and reinstalling. Hopefully I won't have to wipe out the index since that'll take days to rebuild.